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A brilliant, beautiful account of how British boffins triumphed across the decades in creating everything from computer games to Martian landers.
The book contains chapters on the Beagle II, Elite - the 80s computer game, the Blue Streak missile, Concorde, mobile phone technology and the Human Genome Project, among others.
Britain is the only country in the world to have cancelled its space programme just as it put its first rocket into orbit. Starting with this forgotten episode, ''Backroom Boys'' tells the bittersweet story of how one country lost its industrial tradition and got back something else. Sad, inspiring, funny and ultimately triumphant, it follows the technologists whose work kept Concorde flying, created the computer game, conquered the mobile-phone business, saved the human genome for the human race - and who now are sending the Beagle 2 probe to burrow in the cinnamon sands of Mars.
''Backroom Boys'' is a vivid love-letter to quiet men in pullovers, to those whose imaginings take shape not in words but in mild steel and carbon fibre and lines of code. Above all, it is a celebration of big dreams achieved with slender means.
A brilliant, beautiful account of how British boffins triumphed across the decades in creating everything from computer games to Martian landers.
The book contains chapters on the Beagle II, Elite - the 80s computer game, the Blue Streak missile, Concorde, mobile phone technology and the Human Genome Project, among others.
Britain is the only country in the world to have cancelled its space programme just as it put its first rocket into orbit. Starting with this forgotten episode, ''Backroom Boys'' tells the bittersweet story of how one country lost its industrial tradition and got back something else. Sad, inspiring, funny and ultimately triumphant, it follows the technologists whose work kept Concorde flying, created the computer game, conquered the mobile-phone business, saved the human genome for the human race - and who now are sending the Beagle 2 probe to burrow in the cinnamon sands of Mars.
''Backroom Boys'' is a vivid love-letter to quiet men in pullovers, to those whose imaginings take shape not in words but in mild steel and carbon fibre and lines of code. Above all, it is a celebration of big dreams achieved with slender means.
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Hvis du ikke har et medlemsskab er priserne som følger:
| Levering til pakkeshop | 39,95 kr. pr. ordre |
| Hjemmelevering | 59,90 kr. pr. ordre |
Med et guldmedlemsskab er leveringspriserne:
| Levering til pakkeshop. Ordrer under 250 kr. | 34,95 kr. pr. ordre |
| Levering til pakkeshop. Ordrer over 250 kr. | 24,95 kr. pr. ordre |
| Hjemmelevering. Ordrer under 250 kr. | 59,90 kr. pr. ordre |
| Hjemmelevering. Ordrer over 250 kr. | 49,90 kr. pr. ordre |
Med et plating- eller streaming medlemsskab er leveringspriserne:
| Levering til pakkeshop. Ordrer under 250 kr. | 24,95 kr. pr. ordre |
| Levering til pakkeshop. Ordrer over 250 kr. | 0 kr. pr. ordre |
| Hjemmelevering. Ordrer under 250 kr. | 44,90 kr. pr. ordre |
| Hjemmelevering. Ordrer over 250 kr. | 19,95 kr. pr. ordre |
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